Door-latch.



B. H. KLISTBR & P. VANDEHEY.

DOOR LATCH.

APPLIGATION FILED 11911.11, 1913.

Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

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` I BARNEY H. xLIsrEit AND PETER VANDEHEY, or WmGHrsTowN, WISCONSIN.

DOOR-LATCH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application led April 11, 1913. Serial No. 760,489.

To all whom t may concern l town,

, in case of vertical dis Be it known that we, BARNEY H. Kras'rER and PETER VANDER-EY, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Wrightsin the county of Brown and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Latches; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims of this specification, its object being to provide simple, economical, strong, durable and eiiicient latches for .swinging or sliding doors of barns and other buildings, the working of said latches being unaffected lacement of the doors.

Figure 1 of the rawings represents a horizontal section indicated by line 1-1 in Fig. 2, and illustrates fragments of a pair of doors held closed by a latch in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 of said drawings represents an elevation of said fragments of doors and said latch therewith. Referring by numerals to the drawings, 3 indicates one and 4 the other of a pair of doors that may be either swinging or sliding. Bolted or otherwise' suitably secured tothe sides of the door 3 are bearing lates 5, 6, for an arm terminal 7 of a han -loop 8 having another arm terminal 9 crossing the one aforesaid at an approximate right angle thereto and designed to extend a suitable distance beyond the adjacent edge of said door when in approximately horizontal position, said loop and arms being fashioned from a single rod of suitable metal to constitute the bolt-member of our latch. Another hand-loop 10 is shown slipped on a shouldered and screw-threaded end of the arm 7 upon which it is rigidly held by a nut 11, but other suitable means may be employed for securing said loop in working position or some other suitable handle may be detachably employed on said arm of the bolt member of the latch. It is also shown that a compensating sleeve 12 may be utilized on the arm 7 of the bolt-member of the latch between the bearing-plate 6 and adjacent handle of said bolt-member in case the door 3 is of insuflicientthickness to pro- -vide for a near approachthereto of said handle.

The bearing-plate 5' is provided at an upper corner thereof with an outer rightangle lug 13 ingwhich to rest the bolt-member of the latch when the same is swung up and back out of the keeper-member 14 of said latch, this keeper-member being a plate fastened by screws orotherwise on the door 4 or, in case of a single door to a door post, and having an offset right angle up er end.

The arm 9 of the bolt-member of t e latch is shown bent outward to form a stop-lug 1-5 that opposes the keeper-member 14 of said latch to prevent the opening of a slidin door or doors.

e claim:

l. A latch comprising a bolt-member consisting of a rod bent to form a hand-loop and crossed arms, the arms being approximately at a right-angle one to the other; bearing plates on one of the arms for attachment to opposite sides of a door, a handle in detachable connection with the arm that extends through said plates, and a keepermember for the other of said arms, the keeper being attachable to a suitable support.

2. A latch comprising a bolt-member consisting of a rod bent to form a hand-loop and crossed arms, the arms being approximately at a right-angle one to the other; bearing plates on one of the arms for attachment to opposite sides of a door, a handle in detachable connection with the arm thatextends through said plates, a compensating sleeve on the arm carrying the detachable handle between said handle and the adjacent bearing plate, and a keepermember for the other of said arms, the keeper being attachable to a suitable support.

3. A latch comprising a bolt-member consisting of a rod bent to form a hand-loop and crossed arms, the arms being approximately at a right-angle one to the other and one of these arms bent outward at an end thereof to form a stop-lug, bearing-plates o n the other of said arms for attachment to opposite sides of a door, a handle in detachable connection with the arm that extends through said plate, and a keeper member for the arm having the stop-lug, the keeper being attachable to a suitable support.

4. A latch comprising a bolt-member consistingof a rod bent to form a hand-loop i which to swing said bolt member out of town in thencounty of Brown and'State of working positlon, a handle in detachable Wisconsin inthe presence of two Witnesses. l@

connection with the arm that extends through said plates, and a keeper-member for the other or-said arms, the keeper being attachable to a suitable. support., e Witnessesz n testimony that we claim the foregoing K N. REMMEL,

We have hereunto set our hands at Wrights- ODELIA T. REMMEL. 

